Mr. Smith is a national leader in health care and brings more than 30 years of experience across finance, strategy, operations, and stakeholder relations. Mr. Smith serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Care Service Corporation. As the largest customer-owned health insurance company in the U.S., HCSC serves more than 26 million people across the country and in 2024 managed more than $122 billion of medical spend with $62.8 billion in revenue. The company operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield® Plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Through a constellation of subsidiaries and strategic investments, HCSC offers a range of products and services, including dental, vision, life and disability benefits; third-party administration solutions; and pharmacy benefits management.

• Health Care Service Corporation, a leading health insurer
  • Chairman (since 2025)
  • Chief Executive Officer (since 2020)
  • President (since 2019)
  • Vice Chair of the Board of Directors (2020-2025)
  • Senior Vice President, Business Development and Subsidiary Management (2015)
  • Divisional Vice President, Business Development and Subsidiary Management (2012-2014)
  • Vice President, Corporate Transactions and Business Analysis (2011-2012)
  • Numerous other roles of progressive responsibility (1993-2011)
• President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, a division of Health Care Service Corporation (2015-2019)

• Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Chair of the Board, Prime Therapeutics LLC
• Member of the Board of Directors, AHIP
• Member of the Board of Directors, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

• Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) (since 2023)